On Monday 2nd March 2020 we had the kids class grading for Kings Cross Shotokan Karate Club, which saw a number of our younger and newer students progress through the Foundation grades whilst others moved further forward in the Kyu ranks. In total 16 students passed. On Thursday we saw Read more…
Monday 4th March was the first kids Club grading of the year and saw 13 students pass their grades in style. It was great to see students progressing well through our Foundation Grade system and also those who have moved through the Foundation Phases and are now taking full Kyu Read more…
Huge congratulations to KCSKC’s Harvey, Maria and Josh who all passed Nidan (2nd Dan Blackbelt) in style in December 2017 at the SSKI Honbu Dojo. The process of working towards this grading started over 12 months ago for each of them and each worked hard to put themselves into the Read more…
Monday 15th September saw the London Club’s September Kyu grading. The following students were succesfull; Ken Hettiarachi to 9th Kyu Sebastian Ahlers to 8th Kyu Katja Ajoha to 6th Kyu Luke Oxlade to 5th Kyu Well done all!
Congratulations to the following who passed their gradings in the June Kyu grading: Sebastian – 9th Kyu Katja – 7th Kyu Younnes – 6th Kyu Nigel – 5th Kyu Ed – 5th Kyu Harvey – 1st Kyu
Well done to the following students who passed their grading in March Harvey – 2nd Kyu Ed – 6th Kyu Luke – 6th Kyu Terry – 7th Kyu Younis – 7th Kyu Katja – 8th Kyu We also said goodbye to Terry that evening who was heading back to the Read more…
The London Dojo had a very successful end to 2013, with two batches of students passing their respective gradings without a single student failing. Firstly, on Saturday 7th December 2013, four London students passed their respective Dan gradings in front of a panel headed by Malcolm Phipps Sensei (8th Dan). Read more…
SSKI London would like to offer its congratulations to Simon Staples Sensei on the awarding of his well deserved 6th dan grade at the recent TKMA open instructors course. I have trained with Simon for a number of years and his influence has helped shape my approach to martial arts Read more…
To 8th Kyu (orange belt) – Ed Gomez To 8th Kyu (orange belt) – Terry Enlow To 7th Kyu (yellow belt) – Nigel Praetes To 7th Kyu (yellow belt) – Luke Oxlade We’ll done to the four successful Karateka!
At the SSKI Squad training session on Thursday 25th April 2013, Sensei Adam Cockfield was awarded his 5th Dan grade by Sensei Malcolm Phipps 8th Dan and Sensei Tony Bunting 6th Dan, in front of a packed audience of squad members and instructors from nearly all the clubs in SSKI. Read more…